He supported the formation of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm in 1739 by Linnaeus and five others, and was elected a member at the first meeting of this academy.

He supported the creation of London's Foundling Hospital and was one of its founding governors when it received its royal charter in 1739.

In 1739 he supported the establishment of the Foundling Hospital and served as one of its founding governors.

His wife Elizabeth Blackwell supported him by writing and publishing a herbal ( A Curious Herbal, published between 1737 and 1739 ).

Nearly two centuries after the establishment of the New Kingdom of Granada in the 16th century, whose governor was loosely dependent upon the Viceroy of Peru at Lima, and an audiencia at Santa Fé de Bogotá ( today capital of the republic of Colombia ), the slowness of communications between the two capitals led to the creation of an independent Viceroyalty of New Granada in 1717 ( and its reestablishment in 1739 after a short interruption ).

The creation of the residence was considered after the Great Fire of London ( 1666 ), but construction did not commence until 1739.

The area covered by the present-day township was set off to Morris County upon that county's creation in 1739, and became part of the newly formed Sussex County in 1753.

One source says that the township was named after the university in England, and was formed in either 1753 or 1755, but another source claims that the township was named after an early settler named John Axford, who came to settle in the area with others between 1735 and 1739, and affirms that the township's creation was in 1755.

In 1739, at the creation of London's Foundling Hospital, he acted as one of the charity's founding governors.

He was involved in the creation of the Foundling Hospital in 1739, which was an orphanage for abandoned children.

On March 15, 1739, Morris County ( which at the time included what would later become Sussex County and Warren County ) was separated from Hunterdon County.

In 1739, what is now Chelsea, Revere, and Winthrop withdrew from Boston due to governmental control disputes and became the Town of Chelsea.

But in 1739, John Dickinson's half-sister, Betsy, was married in an Anglican church to Charles Goldsborough in what was called a " disorderly marriage " by the Meeting.

In 1742 a cottage was built on what is now the High Street ( close to the junction with what is now Brighton Place ) by a seaman who had served under Admiral Edward Vernon during the 1739 capture of Porto Bello, Panama, meaning literally " beautiful port or harbour ", and who named the cottage Portobello Hut in honour of that victory.

The map shows clearly to what degree the descriptive data of older explorations ( i. e. Vasili Pronchishchev, 1735 – 36 ; Hariton Laptev, 1739 – 43 ; Semyon Čeluskin, 1735 – 43 ; Fyodor Minin and Dmitriy Sterlegov, 1740 ; and Alexander Theodor von Middendorff, 1843 ) could be trusted when drafting a map from many sources and trying to amalgamate them into a single image.

In addition to operas and opera-ballets, Dauvergne composed a number of other works including violin sonatas ( 1739 ), trio sonatas, motets, and what he called Concerts de Simphonies ( 1751 ).

Lewis corrected this in 1739 by purchasing 2, 000 acres ( 8 km² ) along Lewis Creek ( about a mile ( 2 km ) east of what is now Staunton, Virginia ) from Beverley.

As early as 1739 he began acquiring land of his own to the south and west of Beverley's Manor in what is today Rockingham and Bath counties.

It was a revision of an earlier effort, Hume's A Treatise of Human Nature, published anonymously in London in 1739 – 40.

In 1717, the Viceroyalty of New Granada was originally created, and then it was temporarily removed, to finally be reestablished in 1739.

Alexander Gordon ( 1739 – 1792 ), third son from the third marriage of the second Earl, was a Lord of Session from 1788 to 1792 under the judicial title of Lord Rockville.

La Fontaine's model was subsequently emulated by England's John Gay ( 1685 – 1732 ); Poland's Ignacy Krasicki ( 1735 – 1801 ); Italy's Lorenzo Pignotti ( 1739 – 1812 ) and Giovanni Gherardo de Rossi ( 1754 – 1827 ); Serbia's Dositej Obradović ( 1742 – 1811 ); Spain's Félix María de Samaniego ( 1745 – 1801 ) and Tomás de Iriarte y Oropesa ( 1750 – 1791 ); France's Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian ( 1755 – 94 ); and Russia's Ivan Krylov ( 1769 – 1844 ).

The oldest consumer magazine still in print is The Scots Magazine, which was first published in 1739, though multiple changes in ownership and gaps in publication totaling over 90 years weaken that claim.

The Austrians, in their turn, rapidly expanded their empire: in 1718 an important part of Wallachia, called Oltenia, was incorporated to the Austrian monarchy and was only returned in 1739.

This folly was then embellished upon by John Robison ( 1739 – 1805 ), a professor of Natural Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh, in an anti-Masonic work published in 1797.

Owing to public pressure, the British government was pushed towards declaring war with Spain in 1739.

Year 1739 ( MDCCXXXIX ) was a common year starting on Thursday ( link will display the full calendar ) of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Monday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar.

The territory corresponding to Panama was incorporated later in 1739.

From 1739 until the 1900s, Kronborg was used as a prison.

The Academy of Science was founded in 1739 and the Academy of Letters, History, and Antiquities in 1753.

* Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf ( 1739 – 1799 ) was Kapellmeister to the Prince-Bishop of Breslau from 1770 to 1795.

The War of Jenkins ' Ear was a conflict between Great Britain and Spain that lasted from 1739 to 1748, with major operations largely ended by 1742.

The actual declaration of war against Spain was not proclaimed until Saturday 23 October 1739 ( Old Style ).

One of the first actions was the British capture, on 22 November 1739, of Porto Bello, a silver-exporting town on the coast of Panama in an attempt to damage Spain's finances and weaken its naval capabilities.

Even in October 1739 Vernon had sent his first Lieutenant Percival along with two Spanish Fraternity on the ship, with the excuse to deliver a letter to Blas de Lezo and another who at that time was the governor of Cartagena, Don Pedro Hidalgo.

When war had broken out in 1739 it was expected in both Britain and Spain that France would join the war on the Spanish side.

War on Spain was declared by Great Britain on 23 October 1739, which has become known as the War of Jenkins ' Ear.

A greatly improved edition was published by Richard Bentley in 1739.

In 1739 Lauder narrowly failed in his application to become one of the masters of the High School in Edinburgh, but in 1742 Lauder was appointed one of the doctors, or junior masters, at Dundee Grammar School, where he remained until the Jacobite Rebellion, whereupon he went to London.

In 18th century the village, at that time belonging to the Catholic Church, grew to become a market town and its name was changed to Starpol or Staropole, after a new village built for Prienai starost's guards in the vicinity in 1739.

The one successful bill from the lobbying in the 1730s, which came into force on 29 September 1739, extended the provision prohibiting the import of foreign books to also prohibit the import of books that, while originally published in Britain, were being reprinted in foreign nations and then shipped to England and Wales.

* 1739 – 1740, one of the most severe winters in the UK on record.

More than one year later, all diplomatic means having been exhausted, on 10 July 1739 King George II authorized the Admiralty Board to seek maritime reprisals against Spain.

The Treaty of Belgrade (, ) was the peace treaty signed on September 18, 1739 in Belgrade, Habsburg Kingdom of Serbia ( today Republic of Serbia ), by the Ottoman Empire on one side and the Habsburg Monarchy on the other.

The Treaty of Niš is a peace treaty signed on September 29, 1739 in Niš ( East Serbia ), by the Ottoman Empire on one side and Russian Empire on the other.

The town was incorporated in 1739, one year after settlement of the town center began.

Eleanor Charlotte Butler ( 11 May 1739 – 2 June 1829 ) was a member of one of the dynastic families of Ireland, the Butlers, the Earls ( and later Dukes ) of Ormond, who number amongst their ancestors Queen Anne Boleyn ( through her paternal grandmother Lady Margaret Butler ).

George Clinton ( July 26, 1739 April 20, 1812 ) was an American soldier and politician, considered one of the Founding Fathers of the United States.

While he was away at war ( the War of Jenkins ' Ear, 1739 – 1743 ), Lawrence wrote to his father from Jamaica in May 1741, that, should he survive the war, he intended to make his home in the town of Fredericksburg, building a town home on one of the three lots he owned there.

In 1739, that tower would be torn down and a new one rebuilt in front of the church.

Despite this lack of permanence, French fur traders continued to ascend the Missouri River and interact with indigenous peoples ; one such duo, Paul and Pierre Mallet, journeyed from Missouri to Santa Fe, New Mexico in 1739, although future expeditions to New Spain were stopped by Spanish officials.

Alexander Henry ' The Elder ' ( August 1739 – 4 April 1824 ) was one of the leading pioneers of the British-Canadian fur trade following the British Conquest of New France ; a partner in the North West Company, and a founding member and vice-chairman of the Beaver Club.

It is one of England's oldest children's charities, established by royal charter in 1739 as the Foundling Hospital.

Le Monnier was admitted on April 5, 1739 to the Royal Society, and was one of the 144 original members of the Institute.

An engraving in one edition of Bayes ' 1739 publication, of a man hiding in a cave, is sometimes supposed to be him, but the closest description that exists is that given by John Wheeler, of " a fresh coloured man, very much marked with the small pox, about five feet nine inches high ... wears a blue grey coat and a light coloured wig ".

Krigsvetenskapsakademin, founded in 1739 by King Frederick I, is one of the Royal Academies in Sweden.

Frescati House, built in 1739, was a fine example and was at one time the childhood home of Lord Edward FitzGerald.

On his return to England in 1739 he took his seat in the House of Lords as a follower of the Duke of Bedford, one of the wealthiest and most powerful politicians of the era.

In 1739, at the foundation of the Foundling Hospital, he was one of that charity's original governors.

Indeed, conditions were so bad in the felons ' wing that nine prisoners suffocated in one night during 1739.

In 1739 he became one of the founding governors for the Foundling Hospital, a charity dedicated to saving children from the plight of abandonment.